Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-12
oCA NEWS NOTES.

M. Chauvin Yesterday bought ont
| Morris Brothers entire stock OF crockery
The collections of the city under the ole
/ gambling Law amounted to $3.50 pei
month.
John Sullivan, drunk and disorneriy'
was fined IS and costs yesterday in thu
Police Court.
The County Commissioners met and ad'
| iourned till Monday without t~ransactlne
my business.
Tom Adair aged Al years will lie buried
at 2 n. M. to day from B. Pettit's under
taking parlorr.
The road through Black Tail Canyon il
badly cut I'D though it is only q short
time since sleighing was good on it
The present thaw compels the mines to
run their pumps at an increased rate o.
speed owing to sipage of surface water.
There will be meeting Of tie Parnei
Rifles at their armory on East Broadway
on Sunda, afternoon for company In
spection.
Considerable placer mining is o car
ried on at the Little Pipestone. as a suff''
ci: Mt quantity of water is now at hand for
that purpose.
The Pacific Express Company yesterday
shipped Is bars of silver from the Alice.
valued ut SIS, O72 and 10 bars OF silver
from the Blue Bird. valued At S17,96e.
A gentleman recently from Fish Creek.
Madison County, brings cheering news
about stock there. No cattle were lost
though considerable suffering was endured.
jeremiah D. Murphy died on the 10th
instant at 10 p. NJ, aged 70 years. The
funeral will take place at 10 a. N. to-day
fro n his residence OF lower Montana street.
The friends OF Eugene Howell in this city
.ili be panied to hear OF his death. he hav-
ing been lost in a snow storm and found
oct ween Treasure Hill and Hamilton, Ne
vada.
A select dance will he given by the colored
elite of the city next Wednesday in the new
iron building on the corner OF Main and
Galena street.
The Miuer's Lumber Company is rushing
up building at the rate OF Il house a day 10
this city and adjacent villages. The price
of lumber is bound to advance the coming
hummer.
Parents ought to impress on their chill
dren the necessity of using care when
throwing rocks not to %injure property wan
the whistle off the old Lexington Mill, now
shut down.
The Grand jury inspected the Jail and
offices of the Court House. While in Mr..
Office their savage breasts were
with the melodious Straits Of a
music box which Mr.. Kessler has invested
in in the interests of harmony.
R. J. Huston writes that he is enjoying
the eternal spring Of Southern California.
He says the country has been blessed with
abundant rains, everything is fresh and
green and the orarge trs es are heavily
with their golden fruit.
Some commendabie work was done in
the way of crossing cleaning on Iain street
yesterday. The high wind and lower
prevailing are doing yeomau
in drying the mud, and at this rate
may have the dust f. ing by Sunday.
A revolver exploded through careless
handling. in the American Loan Office.
Smiling Albert's building, Main street, yes
It broke two panes OF glass and
a swinging glass shelf. tn. owing a
ct OF trinkets on the floor. No lives were
Iost.
c. W. Scott, the agent OF the Union
Pacific Railway, had a written notice stuck
~ IN the corner window OF his office,
renting Main street. Yesterday, to this
"Al! Union Pacific trains on time
Is usual. No Northern Pacific trains in +
nut OF Butte for past forty-eight hours
The McMurphy assault with-a-deadly-
Weapon case before Justice Dingevon was
,egun at 7:3O last evening but almost i'm
nediately% adjourned to 7:3O p. M. Mon
appeared for the prosecution and c. j.
and l.. j. Hamilton for the defence.
The bridge which goes through the grave
7ard across Silver Bow Creek Is at present
me foot unde water, The old structure is
here by 7 O'Clock this morning with a
ouple of men he might save it. If they
would cut the dam they might save the
The Select Knights Of the A. .. c. ". in |
tailed the following officers last e%Tenins:
,. c.. W. A. Ralston; c.. T. d. Feather!y:
:. c., John Ealey; L. c., S. c. Graney: S.
T.. Willard: j. W C. H. Fisk; 5. B Dor
Aiken; NJ, L. E. Holmes; r. T., J. H. Shaw;
J., ". l. Lippincott; T., j. r. Clark: g., r.
The lecture by Madame De Bahr at the
rand Opera House tonight promises to
e an interesting and largely attended sf-
The subjects upon which she treats
re attracting the attention of the thinking
'orld. All who are interested in Modern
cienti6c Medical Discoveries should not
ail to attend.
Mr.. C.. j. Walsh felt hurt yesterday at the
eglect of our twilight contemporary in
his name from the strong array
( COUNSEL for the prosecution in the va.
iety theater cases. He asserts that he was
be first lawyer engaged in these cases, and
nat too before one OF those mentioned
anne into Butte.
Chairman Hall. of the County Commits
says it is not an Easy job to keep
ne roads passahle while there is ice on the
ame. The bad places on the way to the
epot were fixed yestesday and as 500 as
he roads are thawed out they will be
in FIRST class condition. TIL then
must exercise the ~forbearanee
Drummers who come { Butte are kick
e against the payment of the county and
ty license of S31 20 per quarter. a re-
decision Of the Supreme Court in a
case declares such license uncon-
where confined to citizens Of
ther States doing business 10 a State. But
he Montana law is constitutional and
Ist, becau-e it makes no discrimination
etween citizens Of the Territory and out
ders.